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You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War”…

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The US alone has already launched 191 Tomahawk Missiles and 450 precison-guided bombs against Libya, whose population of 6.4 million is about the same as that of the English-speaking Caribbean. The total cost so far is > $600 M USD; and still counting at 30-100 M USD a week. See report at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/122646
The French announced that their bombers were in the air before approval had been given.The British have also been bombing. All three countries are in touch with the rebel forces.
This is a ‘humanitarian mission’, by the way.
Norman

US Attacks on Libya Cost Hundreds of Millions PDF Imprimir E-Mail
martes, 29 de marzo de 2011
29 de marzo de 2011, 11:12

Washington, Mar. 29 (Prensa Latina) The first six days of U.S. military aggression against Libya cost more than 600 million USD, the ABC television network revealed on Tuesday.

ABC quoted military sources as saying that the Defense Department launched 191 Tomahawk missiles against targets in that North African nation, at an estimated cost of 269 million USD.

Another important outlay was the launching of over 450 precision-guided bombs, and the crash of an F-15 fighter, valued at 60 million USD.

Keeping a fleet of ships and aircraft off Libyan coasts is forcing the Pentagon to use more money on fuel, the sources said.

Raids in Libya by three B-2 fighters, with their base in the state of Missouri, required the U.S. military to invest 10,000 USD per hour for each one of the aircrafts.

Those airplanes used 25 hours in each mission, which cost 750,000 USD per minute for each one, without including the additional 1.3 million USD for the bombs launched on Libya.

According to the Center for Budget and Strategic Assessment, the no-fly zone in Libya could represent between 30 million and 100 million USD in weekly expenses for the United States.

Its oil. This is not news and it reeks of hypocrisy. If I were in Alassane Ouattara’s shoes I would be a bit peeved to put it mildly, but then again the sad nes for Cadbury lovers and human rights and democracy purveyors is that the finest cocoa beans in the world and cocoa futures is not reason enough to take on Gbagbo against the democratically-elected Ouattara’s side in the Cote D’Ivoire civil war in their bizarre ‘moral’ logic. Similarly a Bahraini yearning for democracy and respect for human rights has to deal with the fact that the US middle east naval base is located there, so sorry, no no fly zones or hastily-rushed through UN resolutions for us, I’m afraid. We should not forget that Gadaffi is a Class 1 Exhibit A dictator from the school of classic dictators but the West certainly does not do itself any favours by deciding who our S.O.B.s are/are not going to be, to paraphrase the infamous LBJ quote.Not impressed.

Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO “” The Holy Triumvirate “” are intervening, bloodily, in a civil war. To overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. First The Holy Triumvirate spoke only of imposing a no-fly zone. After getting support from international bodies on that understanding they immediately began to wage war against Libyan military forces, and whoever was nearby, on a daily basis. In the world of commerce this is called “bait and switch”.

Gaddafi’s crime? He was never respectful enough of The Holy Triumvirate, which recognizes no higher power, and maneuvers the United Nations for its own purposes, depending on China and Russia to be as spineless and hypocritical as Barack Obama. The man the Triumvirate allows to replace Gaddafi will be more respectful.

So who are the good guys? The Libyan rebels, we’re told. The ones who go around murdering and raping African blacks on the supposition that they’re all mercenaries for Gaddafi. One or more of the victims may indeed have been members of a Libyan government military battalion; or may not have been. During the 1990s, in the name of pan-African unity, Gaddafi opened the borders to tens of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans to live and work in Libya. That, along with his earlier pan-Arab vision, did not win him points with The Holy Triumvirate. Corporate bosses have the same problem about their employees forming unions. Oh, and did I mention that Gaddafi is strongly anti-Zionist?

Does anyone know what kind of government the rebels would create? The Triumvirate has no idea. To what extent will the new government embody an Islamic influence as opposed to the present secular government? What jihadi forces might they unleash? (And these forces do indeed exist in eastern Libya, where the rebels are concentrated.) Will they do away with much of the welfare state that Gaddafi used his oil money to create? Will the state-dominated economy be privatized? Who will wind up owning Libya’s oil? Will the new regime continue to invest Libyan oil revenues in sub-Saharan African development projects? Will they allow a US military base and NATO exercises? Will we find out before long that the “rebels” were instigated and armed by Holy Triumvirate intelligence services?
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